HBO Offers Fix To Dixie’s Deer Problem

Issue: The buck stops here: State, City Council hope to reduce area’s growing deer population/Tom Greene, Coeur d’Alene Press

Quoth: “People think they’re cute Bambis. They don’t think they’re wild animals and can be aggressive,” said (Coeur d’Alene Councilwoman Dixie) Reid, whose husband was challenged by a snorting and stamping buck in their front yard two falls ago.

Photo Story (from cat owner Bob Hokanson/Bonners Ferry): The cat was my wife’s pet Chinchilla Persian named Charlie Chin. He was supposed to be an indoor cat but nobody told Charlie. The photo was taken by a neighbor in front of our house in Gresham, Oregon the summer of 2001 before we moved to Bonners Ferry to retire. Charlie was about a year old then. Two deer had wandered through our yard and the neighbor had come out to take a picture of them. Suddenly, they bolted and Charlie took off after them just as the neighbor snapped the photo. After we moved to Idaho in 2002, I did see Charlie playing with our local deer on a couple of occasions but never had a camera handy. He would stalk them and when they caught sight of him, they would stamp and snort and then he would chase them. One day, he was kicked in the head and received a nasty wound, but recovered with only a scar. He always wanted to be outside and we knew the danger but just couldn’t keep him confined. In September, 2005 he disappeared.

Hat Tip: Taryn Brodwater